Toobin: Obamacare 'Looks Like It's Going to Be Struck Down'
After oral arguments, CNN's senior legal analyst called the day a train wreck for the administration and said the health law looked like it would be struck down.
The forecast fed expectations that conservatives' legal challenge would kill the Affordable Care Act.
What was reported
After oral arguments, CNN's senior legal analyst called the day a train wreck for the administration and said the health law looked like it would be struck down.
What actually happened
Jeffrey Toobin's verdict from the courtroom set the tone for weeks of coverage predicting the individual mandate's demise. In June 2012 the Supreme Court upheld the mandate 5-4 under the taxing power in NFIB v. Sebelius. Toobin had, ironically, admitted that his own earlier prediction that the law was safe had been wrong.
The proof
The Court upheld the individual mandate on June 28, 2012, as reported by NPR and others.
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Toobin: Obamacare 'Looks Like It's Going to Be Struck Down' — Bad Call. The Court upheld the individual mandate on June 28, 2012, as reported by NPR and others. Full file: https://www.thepropagandafiles.com/case/toobin-aca-train-wreck-prediction-2012/
Original reporting
- Washington Examiner (secondary): CNN — today was a 'train wreck' for Obamacarehttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2307251/cnn-today-was-a-train-wreck-for-obamacare/
- The New Republic: Jeffrey Toobin's Big Weekhttps://newrepublic.com/article/102283/jeffrey-toobins-big-week
Corrections, findings & records
- NPR: Media get health care ruling wrong at first (law upheld)https://www.npr.org/2012/06/28/155936595/media-get-health-care-ruling-wrong-at-first
- Daily Beast (Howard Kurtz): Train Wreck — How the Media Kept Blowing It on Obamacarehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/train-wreck-how-the-media-kept-blowing-it-on-obamacare/
Archived copies
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- Archived copy: Washington Examiner (secondary): CNN — today was a 'train wreck' for Obamacarehttps://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2307251/cnn-today-was-a-train-wreck-for-obamacare/
- Archived copy: The New Republic: Jeffrey Toobin's Big Weekhttps://web.archive.org/web/2/https://newrepublic.com/article/102283/jeffrey-toobins-big-week